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From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: udev is too slow creating devices
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:20:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915152019.GD24818@thundrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095258966.18800.34.camel@icampbell-debian>

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Salut,

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:36:06PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I wonder if it would be feasible for modprobe (or some other utility) to
> have a new option: --wait-for=/dev/something which would wait for the
> device node to appear. Perhaps by:
> 	- some mechanism based on HAL, DBUS, whatever
> 	- dnotify on /dev/?
> 	- falling back to spinning and waiting.

This would  end up  as hideous misfeature  as you can't  guarantee the
device to show up *at* *all*.

The reason udev is there is that we can dynamically respond to created
device nodes and  devices that show up. They  might have changed since
the last boot. Maybe they don't show up at all.

Thus you should trigger your actions from /etc/dev.d.

			    Tonnerre


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14 18:33 udev is too slow creating devices Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 18:42 ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 19:21 ` Chris Meadors
2004-09-14 19:40 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 19:52   ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 20:00     ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-14 20:43     ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-14 21:35       ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 21:45         ` Marco d'Itri
2004-09-14 21:51           ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 22:47             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:04               ` Greg KH
2004-09-14 23:20                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-14 23:34                   ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-09-14 23:58                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 16:15                   ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 19:21                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:09                       ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-15 22:15                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 22:25                           ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:23                       ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 22:46                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-15 13:55                 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 14:36                   ` Ian Campbell
2004-09-15 15:20                     ` Tonnerre [this message]
2004-09-15 15:45                       ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-15 16:12                         ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 16:51                         ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-15 18:00                           ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 16:51                             ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 18:53                             ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2004-09-20  2:16                               ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-17  8:06                           ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-15 16:11                     ` Greg KH
2004-09-15 16:09                   ` Greg KH
2004-09-17  7:48             ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-14 22:03       ` Marc Ballarin
     [not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/14/316@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-14 20:30 ` Michael Thonke
     [not found] <http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/15/119@localhost.localdomain>
2004-09-15 14:26 ` Michael Thonke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-18 19:25 Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 21:24 ` Greg KH
2004-09-18 19:44 Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-18 20:37 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-18 21:30 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19  0:06   ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19  0:41     ` Greg KH
2004-09-19  8:18       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20  4:19         ` Greg KH
2004-09-19  4:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19  8:27   ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 11:53     ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:32       ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 18:43         ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-09-20  4:11           ` Greg KH
2004-09-20 10:52             ` Jon Masters
2004-09-19 12:00     ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 14:25       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-19 15:14         ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 16:00           ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-19 17:11             ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-19 17:30             ` Greg KH
2004-09-20  2:29               ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-09-20 16:17                 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-09-29 23:38               ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-29 23:53                 ` Greg KH
2004-09-19 19:40           ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-09-20  0:05             ` Kyle Moffett
2004-09-20  4:06             ` Greg KH
2004-09-20  8:54             ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-20  0:03         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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